Word: handmaidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese consider that the main function of the Navy, besides defending the home islands, is to pave and patrol safe sea roads to the Empire's outposts. In the realm of strategy the Japanese Navy is the Army's handmaiden. The Navy commits its ships for the most part in direct support of land operations and supply lines...
...told Prosecutor Hassell Biblical stories about Abraham, who took a "handmaiden," and Jacob, who worked seven years for Rachel, was tricked into marrying her sister Leah, then had to work seven more years for Rachel-making two wives. "Do you [think] the Bible is sexually as stimulating as Esquire?" bristled Hassell. "Certainly not," replied...
...passage through Jap lines and past bandit hordes. Many an ex' hausted wife reached Chungking penniless and almost naked to find a concubine in her rightful place. Too often the concubine was herself a "modern girl," unwilling to retire and dead against accepting the traditional role of handmaiden. For some there were successful compromises, but for most court seemed the only answer. ("Two spoons in the same bowl will knock against each other.") Then courts became so clogged that a "duration" moratorium on all such cases was proclaimed...
...Your Pleasure (produced by George M. Gatts). A vaudeville restricted to dancing, singing and music, For Your Pleasure makes skill the handmaiden of monotony. By midevening the audience yearns frantically for a trained seal; by evening's end it would trade all the guitar players on earth for a gag-even a thoroughly bad and bewhiskered...
Many an influential general is against it, prefers the old reliable way, still contends that "infantry is the queen of battle," that air force is just a new handmaiden. Beyond that, the development of World War II to date is against concentrating air strength anywhere. It is needed all over...